Option to retry failed VM instance deployments

[PaulAngus]

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

UI

CLOUDSTACK VERSION

4.16+

CONFIGURATION

NA

OS / ENVIRONMENT

NA

SUMMARY

When a user deployment fails, user ends up with an instance with has a status of Error

They will usually then report it to the CloudStack administrators.
Often the problem is in the backend/infrastructure. The administrators fix the issue and say 'try now'.

It would be a nice touch to be able to 'retry' the instance deployment, rather than have to start again.

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[DaanHoogland]

If all data from the deployment is still available (and I imagine it is) this should be possible. Not sure if the ui can re-compile the request or if the back-end needs another API for this.

[nvazquez]

Thanks @PaulAngus great idea!
@DaanHoogland @PaulAngus IMO it should be back-end handled - once the operation fails, a new work/job must be scheduled after certain configured time with the same parameters as the original job (similar to migration jobs when a host is put into maintenance). Apart from configuring the retry time interval, it could be useful to control the number of retry attempts as well